Chronicle Staff April 12, 2021Updated: April 12, 2021, 7:06 am
Fashion designer Virgil Abloh for Off-White acknowledges the public at the end of the 2016-2017 fall/winter ready-to-wear collection fashion show on March 8, 2016 in Paris. Photo: MARTIN BUREAU, AFP / Getty Images
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SFMOMA Art Bash transforms into four days of virtual events
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art transformed its signature one-night Art Bash into four days of (mostly) free virtual events that will give participants a view into the world of arts innovators, while transporting them back inside the museum starting Monday, April 12.
Chronicle Staff December 28, 2020Updated: December 31, 2020, 1:30 pm
Alex Carrington (left) and Kelly Del Rosario in Margaret Jenkins Dance Company’s “Breathing at the Boundaries.” Photo: Margaret Jenkins Dance Company
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Margaret Jenkins’ ‘Breathing at the Boundaries’ responds to many threats to breath
Many of 2020’s horrors have imperiled our ability to breathe: a virus that consigns its afflicted to respirators and prompts everyone else to don masks; police violence runs so rampant that an officer of the law believes he can kneel on a citizen’s neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds, as part of his job; wildfires whose smoke makes it impossible to go outside.
Verdi’s
Un Ballo in Maschera. Starring Aprile Millo, Harolyn Blackwell, Florence Quivar, Luciano Pavarotti, and Leo Nucci, conducted by James Levine. From January 26, 1991. View here and for 24 hours.
Wagner’s
Das Rheingold. Conductor: Adam Fischer, director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf. With Tomasz Konieczny, Norbert Ernst, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Herwig Pecoraro, and Michaela Schuster. Production from January 2016. Register for free and view here.
Sunday, January 3 Handel’s
Semele. First streamed on OperaVision at its premiere in Berlin on May 12, 2018. Barrie Kosky’s production returns as part of the Komische Oper winter streaming festival. Konrad Junghänel conducts a cast including Philipp Meierhöfer, Nicole Chevalier, Katarina Bradic, Eric Jurenas, Allan Clayton, Ezgi Kutlu, and Nora Friedrichs. View here for one month.